US Climate Policy: A Nation at War with Itself (Infrastructure)
This is the first in an occasional series on US climate policy at a time when uncivil wars are raging within the two major political parties and, indeed, the nation itself.
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What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 49 John Wood, Jr.
John Wood, Jr. is a national leader for Braver Angels, a former nominee for Congress, former Vice-Chairman of the Republican Party of Los Angeles County, musical artist and a noted writer and speaker on issues of political and racial reconciliation.
He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
On The Animal Trail: Excerpt
To ‘enforest ourselves’, we will need an acrobatics of the intelligence and the imagination, and an indefinite, delicate suspense, as we try to translate what those plants and animals do, what they communicate and how they live.
Upon Consideration of a Lone River Birch
Every tree matters—even stunted ones living out just a shadow of their tree nature—so get your shallow tray out of the house when you can, or, if possible, find ways to plant your roots in the ground outside.
Protecting 30% of the Earth by 2030 would threaten Indigenous peoples
To ensure a healthy, just future for all life on earth, we must embrace decolonization as our guiding environmental policy.
Standing Marx on his head: Rethinking socialism and sustainability
Marx is famous for standing Hegel on his head, arguing that ideas and culture are not the fundamental causes of a society’s form as Hegel claimed, but that it is the productive situation which determines a society’s superstructure of ideas and values. Sorry socialist comrades but he was wrong about that. And it’s important for thinking about revolutionary strategy.
Has OPEC finally won the war against shale oil?
It appears that OPEC has finally won its long war against shale oil as beaten up investors seek their fortunes elsewhere.
Elinor Ostrom’s Essential Lessons for Collective Action: Excerpt
Earth’s climate system has the attributes of a common-pool resource. The climate system’s limited ability to absorb greenhouse gas pollution makes it a depletable resource. I
No Time for Castles: From Closed to Open Democracy
Open democracy is a system in which power is equally distributed, or equally accessible at the very least, to ordinary citizens. E
From the depths of the pandemic towards an ecosocialist utopia
Ecosocialism is thus increasingly a necessary way forward amidst and in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is an attainable utopia which represents a hospitable world beyond the world of capitalism we have known so far.
Diversifying Power – A MAHB Dialogue with Jennie C. Stephens
“Diversity matters in climate and energy policy because for too long, concerns of vulnerable communities have been minimized and dismissed while white-male-dominated-fossil-fuel interests have profited from exploiting marginalized people. “
Culture Drives Human Evolution More Than Genetics
In a new study, University of Maine researchers found that culture helps humans adapt to their environment and overcome challenges better and faster than genetics.
